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A step-by-step guide to Beethoven’s nine symphonie

A step-by-step guide to Beethoven’s nine symphonies

John Suchet conducts Beethoven

Watch Classic FM’s John Suchet conduct a Beethoven symphony, for the very first time

Alice Sara Ott Beethoven

Current obsession: this descending scale in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1

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Portrait Ludwig van Beethoven when composing the Missa Solemnis', 1820.

Beethoven’s unfinished tenth symphony to be completed by artificial intelligence

John Lennon inspired by Beethoven

This John Lennon song is based on Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata

Für Elise clock

This Beethoven piano alarm clock is charming, perplexing and annoying

John Suchet to present ‘Beethoven – The Man Revealed’ for 52 weeks to mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth.

Beethoven 250: Classic FM announces UK’s biggest radio series dedicated to the great composer

Lebanese protestors sing ‘Ode To Joy’ in Arabic

Lebanese protestors pause to sing Beethoven’s Ode to Joy in Arabic

Classic FM Experiences: Discover Beethoven and best of the Danube with Classic FM's John Suchet

Classic FM Experiences: Discover Beethoven and the best of the Danube with John Suchet

Events

Crescendo asset

We reckon this is the all-time greatest crescendo in classical music (there will be goosebumps)

Brass against Brexit

Professional brass players play ‘Ode to Joy’ outside UK parliament to protest Brexit

If Beethoven was from Baghdad...

If Beethoven was born in Palestine? This middle-eastern ‘Für Elise’ is too infectious for words

Gloucester Cathedral

Brexiteer threatens to boycott Three Choirs Festival over EU anthem ‘Ode to Joy’

Brexiteers turn their backs on the EU anthem

Brexit Party MEPs turn their backs on Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’ in protest against EU

America's Got Talent guitarist Marcin

AGT guitarist stuns judges with solo guitar arrangement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

Ludwig van Beethoven composer's hair auctioned at Sotheby's

A lock of Beethoven’s hair has just been sold at auction – and it went for a whopping £35,000

Bartolomeo – and one of his inventions

Who invented the piano – and why does nobody remember him?

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Beethoven happy birthday

Happy Birthday in the style of Beethoven's Pathetique sonata is actually ingenious